The Engine 1 Condos. Full post can be found below or by clicking through on the blog title.
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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] SOLD January, 2012 $622,000. One of the first Peacock-Farm style houses built outside of the Peacock Farm development, this 1958-built modernist home was designed by Walter Pierce and updated by the current owners, an architect and a designer/artist, only the second set of owners of this particular example of…
Read More Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] NEW PRICE: $599,000! In the late 1800s, city dwellers could take a short train and trolley ride out of Boston to “the country,” Waverley Village, incorporated into Belmont in 1859. You too can have this blend of urban and country, without having to travel anywhere. Originally designed as…
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Click any photo to enlarge: SOLD: If it is accurate that (as Walter Pierce noted in our discussion) 98% of the homes built in America are not designed by architects, then it partially explains the lowest-common-denominator plan-book design that has resulted in a glut of newly constructed spec houses in this region from the past decade-plus….
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UNDER CONTRACT as of 4/20: Originally built in 1951, this house was given a dramatic facelift in 1998 by the architecture team, JASONNOAH, Jason Silverman and Noah Grunburg, who met while attending Taliesin, and were certainly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located at 34 Oak Street in Lexington, the house is sited on a hill…
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SOLD: The spirit of exploration and invention, led by philosophy, can be present in an office. Ideas are welcomed from wherever they come. Architectural music is orchestral rather than solo. Every member is involved. – Sally Harkness, on the “collaborative” part of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) firm Sally Harkness was the principal TAC partner behind…
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SOLD: We are proud to be representing the owners of this modernist home, The Baggs House in Lincoln, MA. More info here.
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SOLD: For what you would expect to pay for a cape in Lexington (or for even less), you can have style and history. Yes, you erstwhile dreamers and house voyeurs can now buy this brilliant, renovated mid-century modernist house in the historic Five Fields neighborhood. This three-bedroom, two-full-bath house with an open floor plan…
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1 Stonewall Road, Lexington. Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage A common problem for would-be buyers and fans of modern architecture in the Boston area is the paucity of available newly built homes with a modernist sensibility. And when one is located, the price is usually quite high, generally above even higher-end colonial (or,…
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We are very happy to be back listing another modern house in Lincoln, if for no other reason than to have all our friends from Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln (FoMA) come and visit us. Just up the road from Valley Pond, 2 Old Conant Road is a 1973 Deck House beautifully sited on a wooded…
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SOLD: Designed by Carl Koch, the “Grandfather of Prefab” (Progressive Architecture, 1994), this Techbuilt classic, a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath 2615 s.f. home is a fine example of the pioneering modernism that Koch applied to mid-century homebuilding as returning GIs and a surge in Boston-area technology firms created more demand for housing young families. Bill Janovitz…
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